Device for use in moving buildings



April 19, 1927.

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efcffi os Patented Apr. 19, 1927.

UNITED STATES JACOB J'. RODS, OF HULL, IOWA.

DEVICE FOR USE IN MOVING BUILDINGS.

Application filed September 15, 1926. Serial No. 135,596.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel and useful device for moving buildings for short distances, and which can be manually operated. I attain these and other objects of my invention by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a view of the device as it appears in use in moving a building, the device in being shown in end elevation;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my invention; Fig. 3 is an end view of the roller 1; Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-i of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of member 4. Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I provide a large roller of suitable material, preferably of hard wood and having metal rings 2 mounted on its ends to reinforce the roller. I provide a series of bores or channels 3 through one end of the roller, these bores or channels being arranged in an offset relation and in different planes transversely of the roll. I provide a suitable, preferably cylindrical, bar or rod 4 of suitable size at the end tobe inserted in any of the bores or channels 3.

The operation of the device is illustrated in Fig. 1, the building being jacked up and the roller 1 placed under it and the roller moved by means of the rod 4: which may be successively inserted in the series of bores or channels 3 each of which extends entirely through the roller, as shown in Fig. 4, permitting of the insertion of the rod at either end of the bore or channel, as may be convenient to the operator.

The rollers are preferably about 2 to 3 feet in length and of a proportionately suitable diameter.

\Vhat I claim is:

A device for moving buildings, comprising a roller, the roller having a series of 4 channels extending entirely through same, said channels being arranged in offset relation and in different transverse planes near one end of the roller.

JACOB J. ROOS. 

